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Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore
Capt. Larry Pentel
May 8, 2002
Destin - Saltwater Fishing Report
After having the wind blow almost all of last week this week has been a welcome change. The weather has gotten HOT and so has the fishing. The snappers are moving into the beach and seem to be in good numbers on every rock and wreck I check. Quite a few amberjacks around too but most of the inshore ones are short. The kings are doing thier patented appearing and disappearing act. If you are in the right place at the right time you have a limit real quick.
Todays trip we had a limit of Red Snapper(16), 1 king, 1 Amberjack (caught several shorts) 4 triggers and 8 nice vermillion snappers. A pretty nice box for a 4 hr. trip. Yesterday I took a SWAT team fishing. Kind of an anual deal, they call it the A.T.A.C-amphibious tactical assault course. We had 24 snapper with the biggest at 12#, a handfull of trigs and two BIG AJ's. The fun part was watching 'em get thier buts kicked by the jacks ( especially the ones that got away). Said that next years work out schedule was going include some forarm exercises.
Sundays 4 hr. had me in the right place. We got a limit of kings, 6 snappers, some trigs and 2 nice AJ. They had to get a bigger cooler when I was done fish cleaning.
I have been seeing lots of schools of big Tarpon heading East. I have already heard several reports of fish being jumped accidently at Indian Pass. Capt. Pete White Jumped one Sat. on a DOA while trout fishing. Petes good but I think he was huntin' bear with a switch on 6# and a shimano 2000. Looks like Tarpon season might start early this year.
Capt. Larry Pentel
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